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Canadian Vignettes: Voyageurs. A Film Board of Canada vignette; Festival du Voyageur Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine; US National Park Service page on voyageurs; Canadian Museum of Civilization: Virtual Museum of New France: Les Coureurs des Bois; Coppenrath Collection of Voyageur Contracts, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill ...
The Corps of Voyageurs was organized on the initiative of the North West Company, and its bourgeois and engagés became the officers and men of the corps. [2] The Provincial Commissariat Voyageurs had one lieutenant-colonel, one major, one captain, ten lieutenants, ten conductors (sergeants acting as guides), and about 400 private men.
A landscape typical of the Boundary Waters region (Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota) Protected areas along the international boundary Coordinates: 48°06′00″N 91°37′12″W / 48.100°N 91.620°W / 48.100; -
The Voyageur Hiking Trail is a public hiking trail between Sudbury and Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario, Canada.The name honours the early European fur traders of the region who travelled largely by canoe and were known as 'voyageurs’ and ‘coureurs des bois’ (runners of the woods) [1] The trail is used by all ages and levels of experience, from the day hiker and trail runner to the hardy ...
From here to Lake of the Woods the voyageurs' route went northwest across the 9 mile (14 km) long Grand Portage to avoid the falls and canyon of the Pigeon River, thence along the present international border west up the 50 miles (80 km) long Pigeon River and Arrow River to South Lake, and then across the 400 metres (1,300 ft) Height of Land ...
The Nile Voyageurs were a force of Canadian volunteers who served in the Sudan with British forces as part of the Nile Expedition from 1884 to 1885. [1] Though they were civilian volunteers, serving as boatmen for the British Army , they can be considered Canada’s first overseas contingent of war volunteers.
Voyageur Provincial Park is a provincial park located in eastern Ontario, Canada, opposite the once furious Long Sault rapids of the Ottawa River around which voyageurs portaged on their way upstream. [1] Established in 1966, the park was formerly known as Carillon Provincial Park. [2] The park has 416 campsites, 110 with electrical service.
The instrumental "Voyageur" by Don Ross from his "Upright and Locked Position" album (2012), was written for and composed on the Six String Nation guitar. In 2013 Jim Henman, a cofounder of Canada's April Wine, was asked to perform a few of his tunes on the Voyageur at his Toronto show and in 2019, an Ontario singer-songwriter composed and ...